GRAMMY-WINNING PRODUCER PAUL KOLDERIE PROPELS KINGSLEY FLOOD’S SOUND FORWARD ON NEW ‘ANOTHER OTHER’ (OCTOBER 14)

Kingsley Flood – the Newport Folk Fest alums – have propelled their sound forward on new album ‘Another Other’ (October 14) with the help of GRAMMY-winning producer Paul Kolderie (Radiohead, The Pixies, Joe Jackson, Portugal. The Man., Dinosaur Jr.). Kolderie said, “I love this band and I had a blast making this record. Great songs, great people, and we had a lot of fun making it. I think that comes through in the recording. Plus we got to work in an old Masonic temple with shadowy Egyptian gods on the wall.”

Frontman Naseem Khuri recalls, “One of the best traits of Kolderie is his demeanor; he can stay calm through a warzone. He saw us all duking it out over the timing of a trumpet solo, and using very few words, resolved it. He just said quietly, ‘hold on,’ turned around, messed with the board, and played both tracks on top of each other, a few bars apart. [Keyboardist and trumpet player] Chris [Barrett] then did a real take of that second part, and we had our solo with dueling trumpets.” He also suggested layering three different fuzz bass textures on “To The Wolves.” Bassist Nick Balkin adds, “It always a heavy song, but he made it crushingly heavy.”

Kingsley Flood Fall Tour Dates

October 21 – New Haven, CT – Café Nine
October 28 – Gloucester, MA – Rhumb Line
October 29 – New York, NY – Mercury Lounge
November 18 – Cambridge, MA – The Sinclair
November 19 – Washington, DC – Rock N Roll Hotel

THE REASON WHY GRAMMY-WINNER SUSAN MCKEOWN IS A SINGER TODAY: HER PROFESSIONAL MUSICIAN MOM

Chief among the reasons why GRAMMY-winner Susan McKeown is a singer is her mother Jeannie McKeown Ryan, a profession musician in Dublin, Ireland.

"She would come home, get dinner ready, serve it on a circular table – there were seven of us! – then would stand up and unzip her house coat. She'd be wearing something wonderful underneath, and after putting on makeup and perfume would go to this magical other world, to perform. It was all very glamorous."

Jeannie was a Hammond organ demonstrator for a big music store, conductor of church choir, and an organist accompanying theatrical and variety shows in one of the city's main theatres. She received the Benemerenti medal from the Pope (the highest honor a woman can receive from the church) for long service, with over thirty years as organist and choir mistress. Susan's grandparents met in the Dublin church choir for which her mother became choir mistress at the age of 14. Susan's father ran a candy factory. "He played the Willy Wonka role," she jokes.

Susan was the youngest of five and showed the most interest in music.  "I remember singing before I ever learned to talk," she says. "Later, mam and I would sing in harmony with the songs on the radio." When Susan was old enough to join the choir, Jeannie gave her several solos, key moments in her musical development. She also recalls her mother's influence on her business sense, saying, "She was confident in herself as a woman and of her value as an artist."

Jeannie would use her maiden name of McKeown when performing and Susan took that last name when she emigrated to the United States, eventually having it changed legally. "I found a book at the Strand Bookstore a week after I arrived entitled Naming Ourselves, Naming Our Children and in reading it gave myself permission to take my mother's last name, and in so doing pass on the tradition through the women's line."

"I am so proud of her, privileged to have had her as my mother," says Susan, who made a 1999 album with Cathie Ryan and Robin Spielberg called 'Mothers: Celebrating Mothers & Motherhood,' featuring several songs that remember Jeannie.

Susan is passing on the tradition as well, giving her daughter her mother's last name, taking her on tour and fostering her growth as a performer. "She has traveled with me all over Europe and much of the U.S. She's forging her own way. She's already written her first album of songs at ten years old and they've very catchy."

NEW YORKER SUSAN MCKEOWN TO MAKE 92Y TRIBECA DEBUT WITH HEADLINING SHOW JAN. 5

GRAMMY WINNER'S FIRST AMERICANA ALBUM & FIRST ALL-ORIGINAL ALBUM 'BELONG' OUT TODAY

MCKEOWN TAPES INTERVIEW WITH PRI BOB EDWARDS

New Yorker Susan McKeown will make her 92Y Tribeca debut January 5. Meanwhile her new album 'Belong,' her first Americana album and the first on which she has written all of the music and lyrics. Her breathtaking vocals and the way that she finds new ways to write about matters of the heart make this a spellbinding album, which marks half of her life in the States for the Ireland-born vocalist. 'Belong' is out today on Hibernian Music.

McKeown recently completed an interview with Public Radio International's Bob Edwards, in a broad-ranging conversation in which she discussed poetry; mental health; the influence of her mother, an organist; and her love of her hometown of NYC.

WHO: GRAMMY-winning New York vocalist/songwriter Susan McKeown
WHAT: 92Y Tribeca debut and performance from first Americana album 'Belong'
WHERE: 92Y Tribeca, 200 Hudson Street, NYC, (212) 601-1000
WHEN: January 5, 2013
TICKETS: TBA

GRAMMY-WINNING NEW YORKER SUSAN MCKEOWN TO SING AT LIVING ROOM IN CONCERT TO BE BROADCAST BY SIRIUS XM

BREATHTAKING AMERICANA-TINGED ALBUM 'BELONG' OUT NOVEMBER 13 WITH GREAT NEW YORK SONGS

GRAMMY Award-winning, Irish-born artist Susan McKeown, whose new album 'Belong' marks half of her life in the States, will perform a concert at the Living Room November 7, which will be taped and broadcasted by the Loft on SIRIUS XM. A stone's throw from her East Village residence, McKeown has long been a part of the songwriting community in NYC and she flies her flag as a New Yorker on great new songs like "On The Bridge to Williamsburg" and "Lullaby of Manhattan." The focus on 'Belong' remains solely on her breathtaking vocals.

WHO: GRAMMY-winner and NYC artist Susan McKeown
WHAT: Concert and broadcast on SIRIUS XM's The Loft
WHEN: 8pm, November 7, 2012
WHERE: The Living Room, 154 Ludlow St., 212-533-7235
TICKETS: $10 available at Living Room box office

"No Jericho" music video.

In a distinguished career, McKeown has performed with Pete Seeger, Natalie Merchant, Linda Thompson, Billy Bragg, Arlo Guthrie and The Klezmatics. McKeown has recorded mariachi music, klezmer music, African music, Celtic music, and contemporary songwriting. She won a GRAMMY for 'Wonder Wheel,' in collaboration with the Klezmatics on lyrics by Woody Guthrie. In 2010, she made 'Singing in the Dark,' a fascinating exploration of creativity and madness.

She has performed throughout Europe and North America including Glastonbury, The Edinburgh Festival, Carnegie Hall and Disney Hall. In a concert review, Rolling Stone said, "McKeown grabbed both song and audience by the throat, dragged them through heaven and hell and back again, and left the stage to the loudest applause heard all evening."

FOLLOWING EXPLORATIONS OF KLEZMER, AFRICAN MUSIC, CELTIC MUSIC, NEW YORKER & GRAMMY-WINNER SUSAN MCKEOWN DRAWS INSPIRATION, IMAGERY FROM NYC HOMETOWN

East Village resident and GRAMMY Award-winning songwriter and vocalist Susan McKeown tips her cap to her longtime hometown of NYC with several songs from the stunning new album 'Belong' (November 13), which marks half of her life in the States.

"On The Bridge to Williamsburg" depicts two lovers crossing the bridge as obstacles thrown in their path threaten to stop them from reaching their destination together. McKeown says, "Some things are obvious – it’s the not knowing that’s challenging." She poignantly sings to both town and lover, "I've been here for long enough."

McKeown is joined on the song by "captivating" (All Music Guide) Irish singer-songwriter Declan O’Rourke, who scored a double platinum album in Ireland and has been covered by Eddie Vedder and Josh Groban. Evoking Whitman in McKeown's writing, O'Rourke sings,

"Underneath the Brooklyn sky

Hand in hand just you and I

The ferry racing on the tide

The broken sugar factory sign"

Of the haunting "Lullaby of Manhattan," McKeown says, "Broken delph, broken dreams: a domestic tale from the city that never sleeps. Old Irish lullabies were rarely sugar, spice and all things nice, and this urban one is no different."

"City of the Roses," featuring McKeown's East Village neighbor Ray Santiago on piano, references Staten Island and New York Harbor, discusses how we hold onto things for a long time: people, places, events, keeping ourselves stuck.

Fellow New Yorkers: McKeown will play the Living Room November 7 for a broadcast on SIRIUS XM The Loft.

GRAMMY AWARD-WINNER SUSAN MCKEOWN MARKS HALF HER LIFE IN THE STATES WITH 'BELONG,' OUT NOV. 13 MINING AMERICAN ROOTS MUSIC IN TELLING HER STORY

ERIN MCKEOWN, WOOD'S JAMES MADDOCK, MULTI-INSTRUMENTALIST DIRK POWELL, AND SINGER-SONGWRITER DECLAN O'ROURKE JOIN MCKEOWN ON NEW ALBUM

Susan McKeown – the creatively restless GRAMMY Award-winning and BBC Award-nominated vocalist – is readying 'Belong' for November 13 release. The Irish-born singer has finally come home, marking half of her life in the States with an exploration of American roots-derived music that delves deeply into matters of the heart.

Opening with 'On the Bridge to Williamsburg,' a duet with Irish singer-songwriter Declan O'Rourke, 'Belong' is Susan at her most personal, charting intimate details of relationships, plotting their trajectories, examining the shards and remnants as though on an archaeological excavation. James Maddock (from Wood) and banjo and accordion player Dirk Powell (Irma Thomas, The Raconteurs, Joan Baez) join Susan for 'Everything We Had Was Good,' a break-up song about ending well. 'The Cure for Me' was in part inspired by lines from 'Night Ferry,' Seamus Heaney's elegy for poet Robert Lowell. Erin McKeown guests on 'Fallen Angel.'

In a distinguished career, McKeown has performed with Pete Seeger, Natalie Merchant, Linda Thompson, Billy Bragg, Arlo Guthrie and The Klezmatics. McKeown has recorded mariachi music, klezmer music, African music, Celtic music, and contemporary songwriting. She won a GRAMMY for 'Wonder Wheel,' in collaboration with the Klezmatics on lyrics by Woody Guthrie. In 2010, she made 'Singing in the Dark,' a fascinating exploration of creativity and madness.

She has performed throughout Europe and North America including Glastonbury, The Edinburgh Festival, Carnegie Hall and Disney Hall. In a concert review, Rolling Stone said, "McKeown grabbed both song and audience by the throat, dragged them through heaven and hell and back again, and left the stage to the loudest applause heard all evening."